Ways of Dealing Internal Conflict

• Denial refers to refusing to accept one’s unacceptable desires or fears, or refusing to accept a traumatic event
• Repression refers to hiding one’s desires and fears in the unconscious.
• Displacement refers to replacing an unacceptable object of one’s emotion.
• Isolation refers to disconnecting one’s emotions from a traumatic event
• Sublimation refers to redirecting an unacceptable

  desire into a creative act
• Projection refers to placing one’s unacceptable or unworthy desires or fears onto another
• Intellectualization refers to avoiding one’s desires and fears by analyzing and rationalizing them – instead of feeling them.
• Reaction Formation refers to believing the opposite is true to avoid facing the truth about a traumatic event